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Chapter 4

The Lies Begin

"Oh, yes ma'am. It was big. And it had hair all over its body! He looked green from where I was standing." The girl went on.

Scully sighed, feeling exhausted. "And where were you exactly? Where did you see this… thing?"

"I was watching TV, and that monster was looking at me through the window!"

"And this happened in the evening?" Scully asked.

"Yes ma'am."

"Then how could you see anything from outside? It was probably snowing and pitch dark." It was just ridiculous.

"Well, I don't know… I suppose it was glowing, or something." The girl said, her eyes wide.

"Glowing." Scully repeated, her mouth slightly opened.

"Alright Jenny, you've been such a doll, thanks for all the information. We'll let you know if we need anything else. And keep an eye out from this thing, this town is not as safe as it used to be." Officer Kelly said, his hand on Jenny's shoulder.

Scully wrenched in disgust.

"You're welcome officer." Jenny said with a big smile and walked off to join her friends.

Scully and Kelly started walking towards his car.

"Well, today sure was a great success. Not only is our prime suspect big green and hairy, it also glows." Scully said sarcastically, but Kelly didn't seem to note the sarcasm.

"Well Dana, we still have over an hour before we have to meet with Jessica and your partner."

By then, Scully had learned that Kelly's first name was Dick, and Detective Lois was Jessica. And Dick had insisted that Scully called him by his first name. This somehow gave him the impression that he was welcome to call Scully by her first name as well. Which he wasn't. Ever.

"Yes we do Dick." Scully said, having a great idea of what he was pushing for.

"We could have a drink in our local bar… Or go hang out in my place." He said, obviously hoping that she chooses the latter.

And of course, she didn't.

"I can use a beer." Scully said with a smug smile.

And so, fifteen minutes later, Scully was seating at a bar, finishing the beer with Kelly purchased for her.

"So tell me, Dana, what kind of a relationship do you have with Agent Mulder?"

"What do you mean, Dick? We're partners." She wasn't going to make it easy on him.

"Well, you know. Are you… close partners?"

"We're pretty close I guess."

"I see. So you have a romantic relationship."

She laughed. "Hardly."

"Oh. Ok, good. You see, agent Scully, I'm not one who would snatch a woman under her boyfriend's nose. And I assume there is no Mr. Scully?"

Scully just eyed him. Was he serious? This was his way of coming on to a woman?

Before she knew it, Dick Kelly had one hand on her lap and one on the back of her neck, and suddenly his tongue was inside her mouth.

"Hey!" She jumped back, almost falling off her stool.

"What's wrong?" He asked, getting up himself.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Oh, come one Dana…" He was saying, trying to catch her with both hands on her waist.

"No! Get away you ass!" She pushed him off, grabbed her coat and started putting it on.

"We're done here." She pulled out a five dollar bill out of her pocket and put it on the table. "I'll see you in an hour at the station." She mumbled and headed for the door. When she got outside the cold air hit her cheeks and neck, and she wrapped her coat tighter around herself and headed for the house where she and Mulder were staying. It was only a ten minute walk away, and Kelly didn't seem to try and follow her.

Just over an hour later, after she'd had a quick shower and a change of clothes, Scully walked into the office where she was meeting the others.

They were all already there, sitting around the desk that was pulled into the middle of the room. They had been talking about something, but stopped and looked up when she came in.

"Sorry I'm late." She said, avoiding Officer Kelly's eyes.

"Where were you? I was starting to get worried." Mulder asked.

"Worried about what? That I was eaten by the green monster? Nope. Still alive." She said, and took a seat at the table.

They resumed conversation and came to the conclusion that they've talked to pretty much all the people of Green Hill. Mulder even mentioned something about him and Scully booking flights back to Washington, since they've been no other kidnappings since they came, and no sighting of the green monster either. But both Dick and Jessica were very against the idea, so they ended up deciding that they would wait another day to see if something came up.

On the drive back to their room Scully could feel Mulder's eyes on her.

"What?" She asked, turning to him.

"I don't know. You tell me. What happened?"

"What do you mean? Nothing happened."

"Scully."

"Mulder, I don't understand why are we still here. The last couple of days have been a complete waste. This is not FBI material. I want to go back home Mulder."

He parked the car and they got out.

There was no light for miles and there were no clouds in the sky, so the stars were clearer then Scully has ever seen them before.

"You can't even see the constellations. All the stars are so bright." Mulder noted, looking upwards with his hands in his pockets.

"Please, Mulder. Let's just get out of here."

"We promised to stay another day. We'll stay here tomorrow, and if nothing happens I'll book us tickets and we're out of here by the next morning."

Scully sighed. It was reasonable.

"Fine. But we're not splitting tomorrow." She said, not realizing how much she was giving away.

"Why? Scully, what happened today? I could tell something was bothering you when you came to the meeting earlier. Did Kelly do something?" Mulder asked, all of his attention on her now.

She stayed quite for a moment, and before she could pick the right wards Mulder exploded.

"What? He DID so something? That fuck head…"

"Clam down Mulder. It's nothing like that. He just… came on to me. He kissed me, ok? And it's not a big deal but it really got to me and I'd really like to get the hell out of here."

"Scully…" Mulder sighed, and next thing he was pulling her into one of his bear hugs that she would never admit she loved. For a reason unknown to her, she felt her eyes burning with tears threatening to spill, but she held back. She couldn't explain why she was so emotional and bothered about what had happened, but it was not in her control.

"It's a done deal. I'll book us tickets tonight for tomorrow afternoon. There is no reason to stick around any longer. There is obviously no monster to catch and we're wasting time here." With his hand lightly on the small of her back, he guided her to their room in the familiar way that he always did. He opened the door and clicked the lights on.

"Mulder!" Scully noticed it immediately.

"What? What's wrong?"

"Our lap tops. Look!" She pointed at the table, where they left both their computers plugged into the wall for charging. The cables lay on the table, but the laptops where no where in sight.

"Shit." Mulder whispered. He looked frantically behind the desk and even checked in the bathroom, but they were obviously stolen.

"Shit!" He said louder, and started heading for the door.

They went downstairs and found the lady who managed the Bed&Breakfast on a chair reading a book.

"Did anyone go up to our room?" Mulder demanded.

The lady was somewhere around 80, and looked like the last person who would want to steal their laptops.

"Sir, I don't know! I wasn't home all day; did you lock your room?" She asked.

"Yes, we locked it. Does anyone else have keys?" Scully asked more gently.

"Just me Agent Scully. And I had it on me all day!" She showed them a set of keys that she produced out of her pocket.

"Mulder, who would do this?" Scully asked.

"I don't know. Damn it." He ran his hands through his hair.

"Yeah." Scully sighed.

They kept everything on their computers. Old case reports, secret information that they'd found. Endless and endless files. It was all they had aside from the files at their office back in Washington.

"Damn."

AN: Next chapter, the real drama begins, and the actual storyline will be revealed. It was supposed to happen sooner, but I guess I've kind of dragged it along.

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